No NIMBYism without homeownership.

AI is erasing the boundary between product managers, engineers and designers.

Home ownership drives NIMBYism. More renters -> fewer NIMBYs.

Who is the Lex Fridman (top podcaster) of Europe?

Today, we dismiss it as AI slop. In five years, we’ll cherish imperfections as human slop—and pay a premium for it.

Today’s AI thrives on human creativity (the internet pre-AI). But if future models train on self-generated content (the internet post-AI)—with all rewards going to providers—why would anyone contribute? The incentive model is broken.

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Growing up in Switzerland, I took this for granted, naively assuming the whole world looked like this.

It’s still early for AI.

Get your knights ready…Chess is coming.

Founders often come to me for advice. (Why? I haven’t a clue.) Still, I take these calls, and I wanted to share some of my most frequently shared advice to consumer tech companies: Don't build a startup in education. It's a regulated market where most money goes to teachers.

If clubs are dying because young people don’t drink, restaurants might be next. Same business model.

148 new courses just dropped 😲 Speak Spanish but want to learn Korean? Speak Italian but want to learn Japanese? Speak Thai but want to learn German? Now you can 🥲

Never compromise on sleep. This is the most important rule in my operating manual. Before sleep tracking apps and Oura rings, before Huberman protocols and EightSleep mattresses, before it became a status symbol, I had this simple rule. Back in 2007, sleep was definitely not

Don’t turn your 10x engineer into a .5x manager. Not every high performing independent contributor (IC) will shine as a manager. Yet at many companies, moving into management is the only path to career advancement. This scenario is bad for the best ICs, hurts their retention

The best part of upscale saunas like Othership? No phones. People talk. It’s wild.

Focus when certain, explore when unsure. Wrong strategy can lead to failure. Know which mode you're in.

thanks for your 1000 day spanish streak trent!

who is building the AI-native Slack?